{"id":22141,"date":"2026-02-27T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/speed-dates-is-no-feeble-full-motion-video-game-its-a-bold-art-film-dominik-diamond\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:37:17","slug":"speed-dates-is-no-feeble-full-motion-video-game-its-a-bold-art-film-dominik-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/speed-dates-is-no-feeble-full-motion-video-game-its-a-bold-art-film-dominik-diamond\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game \u2013 it\u2019s a bold art film | Dominik Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"

With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur movies<\/p>\n

I spent Valentine\u2019s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It\u2019s a new game called Speed Dates \u2013 Winter Edition<\/a>, which I only chanced upon when I searched \u201cWinter Games\u201d on Xbox Live hoping for some Olympics fare. And boy, did I find it!<\/p>\n

The game is in Turkish, with English subtitles. It already feels arthouse; like those films Channel 4 used to show with a red triangle<\/a> in the corner of the screen.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nWith original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur movies
\nI spent Valentine\u2019s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It\u2019s a new game called Speed Dates \u2013 Winter Edition, which I only chanced upon when I searched \u201cWinter Games\u201d on Xbox Live hoping for some Olympics fare. And boy, did I find it!
\nThe game is in Turkish, with English subtitles. It already feels arthouse; like those films Channel 4 used to show with a red triangle in the corner of the screen. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur movies I spent Valentine\u2019s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It\u2019s a new game called Speed Dates \u2013 Winter Edition, which I only chanced upon …<\/p>\n

Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game \u2013 it\u2019s a bold art film | Dominik Diamond<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}